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Earthquake History for August 11th

Four deaths.
540 houses destroyed on Samos by this
quake and a strong aftershock 3 days
later. Damage also occurred on Patmos
and in adjacent parts of Anatolia. The
quake was felt from Chios (Khios) and
Thira (Santorini) inland to Aydin and
Odemis. (Note: at the time of this
quake, Chios, Patmos and Samos were
part of the Ottoman Empire).
From N.N. Ambraseys and C.F. Finkel, Seismicity of Turkey and neighbouring
regions, 1899-1915, Annales Geophysicae, 1987, 5B (6), p. 701-726;
and
The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979.

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